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Or have you not read in the law that on the Sabbath the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are blameless?
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Yet I say to you that in this place there is One greater than the temple.
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But if you had known what this means, 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice,' you would not have condemned the guiltless.
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For the Son of Man is Lord even of the Sabbath."
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Now when He had departed from there, He went into their synagogue.
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And behold, there was a man who had a withered hand. And they asked Him, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"--that they might accuse Him.
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Then He said to them, "What man is there among you who has one sheep, and if it falls into a pit on the Sabbath, will not lay hold of it and lift it out?
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Of how much more value then is a man than a sheep? Therefore it is lawful to do good on the Sabbath."
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Then He said to the man, "Stretch out your hand." And he stretched it out, and it was restored as whole as the other.
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Then the Pharisees went out and plotted against Him, how they might destroy Him.
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But when Jesus knew it, He withdrew from there. And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them all.